When they entered the Xuanli Office and were sent out to perform the mission, the old eunuch who died ten years ago, the founder of the Xuanli Office, the eunuch Deling, had always been Lushan without seeing his true face, but on that day, he personally went out to say a word to them, and after a long time, he couldn't remember the original words, but some sentences, but until now, he still remembers them very clearly, as if he had just heard these words. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"You have entered this place, obviously, the success and fame that others can enjoy, flowers and applause are impossible to touch, not only this, but more, losing contact with your family, cutting off friends, obscurity, painstaking solitude, just for the completion of the assigned task, you take greater risks than anyone else, even greater than going to the battlefield to fight, there are no corpses, no joke, of course your family can get the best pension, but, the most critical point," De Ling stood tremblingly under the porch of the prayer hall, braving the goose feather snow and said to the hundreds of people who were silent at the scene, "Everything you have done, the court will never recognize, if your behavior happens, it is your own behavior, and it has nothing to do with the country, this is the saddest fate of being a spy, I am here to tell you, I want everyone to understand that you sacrifice for the country, and no one will remember you!" ”

"You will never be the great heroes of all the people!"

"Your name will only exist in the book, and will never be known by everyone, your great deeds will not be known, your name will not be inquired about, you are only people who exist in the dark!"

"But your deeds will live on forever!"

Li Yansheng had already prepared, his mind slowly blurred, and a little light suddenly appeared in the originally dark vision, but it was just a bright light, and after a while, he lost consciousness, exhaled slowly, and died under the beam of the Qiancheng Palace.

Although the golden seal was solid, it also melted quickly under the fire, and the commander of the French army nodded with satisfaction, looking at the grief-stricken Vietnamese monarch and minister, "Very good, since we have decided to break with China and decided on the right direction, then we need an action to prove that we can rest assured, now, sign a merger treaty with France immediately!" ”

In the tenth year of Guangxu, on the first day of April 1884, the commander of the French army, Badeno, came to Hue, Vietnam, with peace and an army of 7,000 people, deposed Emperor Jianfu, supported the pro-French Emperor Tongqing to come to power, and signed a new treaty. At the same time, Vietnam no longer recognized the Qing Dynasty as its suzerainty and melted down the golden seal of the Vietnamese king granted by the Qing Dynasty. The contents of the treaty were: (1) Vietnam recognized and accepted the right of protection from France, which was Vietnam's representative in foreign relations; (2) the permanent occupation by France of all forts and fortifications along the coast of Thuan An; (3) France set up a general supervisor (called "Qin Envoy" in Vietnam), and the general supervisor and his guard were stationed in Hue; (4) The King of Vietnam, subject to any restrictions arising from this Treaty, shall continue to administer the internal affairs of his country as before; (5) If necessary, France may set up garrison officers or deputy garrison officers in the northern provinces under the command of the general superintendent; (6) the customs duties of the entire Kingdom of Vietnam, after the re-reform, will be administered by France; (7) In order to ensure the implementation of the right of protection, France was to carry out military occupation in strategically important places in Central and Northern Khit. This is the second Hue Treaty. Unlike the Treaty of Hue, which was signed after the signing of the Sino-French Treaty in history, this time the French could not bear the notoriously unjustifiable position in Vietnam, and preemptively attacked Hue City in an attempt to create legal recognition first, so as to suppress the aggressive attack of the Chinese.

The Empress Dowager Cixi slowly put down the report, her face sank like water, "The French are really shameless, we haven't decided the final victory or defeat here, but he went to bully the Vietnamese," the excerpt was thrown on the bookcase, "It's annoying!" ”

"The Vietnamese have defected," Qinghai was worried, "We originally meant to send troops to protect the domain, but now that Vietnam is like this, we have become the murderers of the invasion of Vietnam!" ”

The Qing court did not hesitate to go to war with France, which was then known as the second most powerful country in the world, for the purpose of "protecting the vassals", in order to maintain the traditional Sino-Vietnamese suzerain-vassal relations. However, when it came to the "great victory in Haiphong Port", the Qing court faced the betrayal of Vietnam, so now it is in a very awkward situation: there is no feudal domain to protect.

Under the traditional Celestial Empire order, Vietnam existed as a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty. But under the rule of its last dynasty, the Nguyen Dynasty, the suzerain-vassal relationship with the Qing Dynasty had gradually drifted apart. From 1802, when the Nguyen Dynasty was founded, to 1850, before the Taiping Rebellion, the Nguyen Dynasty paid tribute to the Qing government only 13 times, far less than Korea, which was also a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty. On the contrary, because the establishment of the Nguyen Dynasty was aided by the French invaders, the Vietnamese court was permeated with a sense of "goodwill" towards France, and even when the French invaders had already forcibly seized Nam Chi, the Vietnamese rulers still wishfully expressed to the invaders that "France and Vietnam are one family".

But at this time, when China and France almost played a dog's brain for Vietnam, the Nguyen court actually set aside the Qing Dynasty and signed the "Second Hue Treaty" with France, openly announcing that Vietnam accepted the protection of France, and also destroyed the jade seal awarded by the Qing court in public to show the severance of suzerain-vassal relations with China. After that, the Nguyen Dynasty even openly issued notices everywhere to severely punish the officials and civilians who assisted the Qing army, and ordered to resist the Qing army. This not only turned the Qing army in Vietnam into an unjustifiable and unworthy division, but also enabled the French army to receive new support in all respects. Even when the French army attacked the Qing army stationed in Beiqi, a large number of Vietnamese Catholics formed the Lanyi soldiers to participate in the battle, and a large number of parishioners transported guns, ammunition and military supplies for the French army.

"Emperor Jianfu was killed," Guo Songtao said, "This is a rebellious matter, please ask the Empress Dowager to quickly order the Imperial Court to inform Hue and never admit it!" ”

"It's not important at the moment, the most important thing is Lang Sheng," Rong Lu slowly shook his head, opposing Guo Songtao's opinion, "Now there is no reason to protect the domain, but as long as the Beiqi area is occupied, what Vietnamese lord wants to be emperor in Hue and wants to submit to France, it will not be able to affect the ownership of Beiqi, and when the time comes, whether we canonize a new monarch or set up counties, it will be extremely cheap," Rong Lu's words surprised everyone slightly, does the imperial court have the intention of abolishing the national honor of Vietnam?

"Zhonghua is right," Empress Dowager Cixi's face was hot, and she felt humiliated by the Vietnamese, but she clearly understood that only by taking an absolute victory militarily and defeating the French could she settle accounts with them after being humiliated by the Vietnamese in the face here! (To be continued.) )